CAMBA INC
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Mission Statement
CAMBA is one of New York City’s largest and most trusted community-based organizations and is unique among peer agencies in scale, quality, and responsiveness. Founded in 1977 as a merchants’ block association, the agency has grown in direct response to the needs of the Brooklyn community and beyond. Today, CAMBA provides services to 45,000 individuals and families annually through an integrated set of six program areas: Economic Development, Education and Youth Development, Family Support, Health, Housing, and Legal Services. Through our comprehensive continuum of care, CAMBA provides services which connect people with opportunities to enhance their quality of life. CAMBA’s track record is impeccable, consistently ranking in the top tier of peer organizations in government contracts, and employing evidence-based programming where possible. Our programs are successful because they respond to community needs and embrace the diverse cultures of the individuals we serve.
About This Cause
CAMBA offers more than 160 integrated services and programs in economic development, education and youth development, family support, health, housing and legal services: Economic Development: CAMBA’s workforce development programs train and place over 600 unemployed and often inexperienced individuals every year. Our small business services provide one-on-one counseling, entrepreneurial training and technical assistance, and micro-loans to 500 aspiring entrepreneurs each year, most of whom are recent immigrants. Education and Youth Development: For the past 20+ years, CAMBA’s youth development programs have been providing academic enrichment and social and emotional support to young people in our community. Currently, our youth programs reach 9,000 children annually, providing out-of-school time programming, summer camps, in-school support services, college readiness, and career development at 30 schools and other locations throughout New York City. Family Support: CAMBA’s social workers provide an array of direct services to help families cope with crises, from domestic violence assistance to foster care prevention to healthy relationship workshops and counseling for high school students. CAMBA also operates a home visiting program for new mothers and their families, which aims to improve maternal and infant health outcomes in high-risk Brooklyn neighborhoods. Health: For more than two decades, CAMBA providing permanent and emergency housing, education and prevention programs and case management services for people living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS, reaching more than 2,500 people annually. CAMBA is now a leader among community-based organizations in New York State Medicaid reform efforts, with Health Link, which provides comprehensive care coordination for nearly 3,800 individuals struggling with multiple chronic illnesses and substance abuse disorders. Our Beyond Hunger Food Pantry provides healthy food, nutrition counseling, benefits screening and congregate meals to more than 4000 individuals and families each month, and connected 1,600 households to the SNAP program last year. Housing: CAMBA provides continuum of housing services including homelessness prevention and eviction prevention services, emergency shelter, transitional housing and permanent, supportive housing for more than 13,000 people each year. In 2005, CAMBA created CAMBA Housing Ventures (CHV), as an affiliated non-profit affordable housing development corporation. Today, CHV is an award-winning affordable, supportive housing developer that pairs design excellence and energy-efficient buildings with CAMBA’s life changing case management services to provide safe, healthy homes for vulnerable New Yorkers. To date, CHV has created and/or partnered on 1,529 units, representing over $524 million in public/private investment. Legal Services: CAMBA Legal Services provides high quality legal representation and advice to more than 3,000 New Yorkers struggling with housing, immigration, domestic violence, eviction, foreclosure, or other critical issues. Last year alone, our legal prevented 850 evictions, helped 250 immigrants gain legal status or citizenship and eliminated $350,000 in debt.